Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 20th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-20-2002-A0A71E8OZ6
Bummer April 20th
April 20, 2010: Eleven workers are killed and a large-scale environmental disaster unfolds when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes. On September 4, 2014, the BP corporation who contracted the work on the rig was found to be legally negligent in the incident.
April 20, 2013: Virginia State University students Marvell Edmondson and Jauwan Holmes drown in the Appomattox River while taking part in a fraternity hazing event held by the Men of Honor, a local, unsanctioned fraternity. Five others are rescued from the river. Fraternity members plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and hazing.
April 20, 2016: The first of an eventual 33 deaths resulting from the intentional poisoning of laddu, a baked sweet, occurs in the Layyah District of Punjab, Pakistan. The laddu was purchased at a shop belonging to a pair of brothers. The brothers had an argument, and one added the pesticide chlorfenapyr to the sweets mixture to spite his brother. Celebrants at a party for a baby born on April 17th ate the laddu and 33 of them died, including the baby’s father and five children.
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